Honestly, who gives a rats hindquarters about NPR? This is a pool forum, not really the place to go for political discussion. I realize that a lot of the "internal politics" on this site comes from interactions on the NPR forum, but that's noting I'm too concerned about.
I come here to learn and talk about pool. If I wanted to learn about or discuss politics, I'd take more classes at the University, or go to an open lecture or something. Some guy can/can't (depending on which poster it is) run a rack, and now all of a sudden he is a guru on politics? Give me a break!
Since the mods "wonderful", "parsimonius" equation is taken so seriously by you, I expect that his opinons are informed by serious study of the makeup of political protest movements, the psychology of fringe members of such movements and international terrorist networks, as well as specific studies of the groups in question? I also assume he somehow has access to as of yet unreleased information from law enforcement or at least has access to privileged information from agencies and intelligence analysts? Does the post even contain a logical argument, based on facts, other than that persons feelings? If neither of these things are true, then who bloody cares what he thinks!? Nobody should care about an uninformed opinion such as this, doing so lends legitimacy to it, of which it is wholly undeserving. Do you get out of the taxi when the taxi driver makes an observation or argument with which you disagree?
What are you going to do now, boycott the forum because one guy is a <whatever you Americans call someone with opinions like that>? If someone talks rubbish at the pool hall, then I expect that you ignore that person, that strategy can be used online as well, you know. If your lifes mission is to correct everyones opinion you are:
A: Patrick Johnson
B. Going to be very busy
C: Probably getting banned